Miscellany

THE WORLD OF WRITING

The natural order, not enough voices of reason, too many hands typing, and OMG, please stop screamers! What’s hotting up the writing world this month?

Scary cli-fi spreads the word

Climate fiction, cli-fi, for short, which often depicts a grim future of a changed world ‘having to deal with years of environmental neglect’, is a genre which has seen a fourfold increase in published books in the past six years, Rio Fernandes wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education.